The Civil Rights History Project, mandated by an Act of Congress in 2009, is a joint undertaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. The project began with a nationwide survey of oral history collections and culminated in a broad series of oral history interviews with civil rights movement veterans from coast to coast. Below, Judge Matthew Perry describes his first case (video from the NMAAHC):
The SOHP conducted one hundred oral history interviews between 2011 and 2014.